Today the journey is ended,
I have worked out the mandates of fate;
Naked, along, undefended,
I knock at the Uttermost Gate.
Behind is life and its longing,
Its trial, its trouble, its sorrow,
Beyond is the Infinite Morning
Of a day without a tomorrow.
- Wenonah Stevens Abbott, A Soul's Soliloquy

The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those
mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all
eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a
thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these
perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of
perfection, but of happiness?
- Joseph Addison

The soul, secure in her existence, smiles
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point,
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amidst the war of elements,
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
- Joseph Addison

To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to
consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of
glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still
adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge,--carries in
it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is
natural to the mind of man.
- Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
- Joseph Addison,
in the "Spectator", no. 215

With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own
souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and
knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not
yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to
conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.
- Joseph Addison

But thou shall flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
- Joseph Addison, Cato (act V, sc. 1)

Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a
friend.
- William R. Alger

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask
whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
- Aristotle

There is, they say, (and I believe there is),
A spark within us of th' immortal fire,
That animates and moulds the grosser frame;
And when the body sinks, escapes to heaven;
Its native seat, and mixes with the gods.
- John Armstrong

And see all sights from pole to pole
And glance, and nod, and bustle by,
And never once possess our soul
Before we die.
- Matthew Arnold, A Southern Night (st. 18)

But each day brings from its pretty dust
Our soon choked souls to fill.
- Matthew Arnold, Switzerland (pt. VI)

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried
along to dwell in the blood.
[Lat., Anima certe, quia spiritus, in sicco habitare non potest;
ideo in sanguine fertur habitare.]
- Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo), Decretum (IX, 32, 2)

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything
which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk
according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius)

The soul that lives, ascends frequently, and runs familiarly
through the streets of the heavenly Jerusalem, visiting the
patriarchs and prophets, saluting the apostles, and admiring the
army of martyrs. So do thou lead on thy heart and bring it to
the palace of the Great King.
- Richard Baxter

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night
and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested
love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.
- Henry Ward Beecher

There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute
of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian
angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.
- Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human
soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the
future, though we are finite in the past.
- Henry Ward Beecher

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for
many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
- Bible, Luke (ch. XII, v. 19)